Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
THE REPUBLICAN CUNVEN-
1ION.


THE REPUBLICAN, CUNVEN-
TON.
= It is seldom that we have listened to
such mass of demagogery, class appeals.
and transparency thin points as attended
the Republican nominating meeting on
Saturday last. The listener found it hard
to decide between the two questions
What can these speakers think of their au-
dience? and What can this audience think
of their speakers. The orators launched out
into the vast Domain of Flap-doodle with
a nerve and cheek which would have excl
ted the envy of the most experienced con-
fdence man. A lawyer was deploring
that the Democrats had shown too much
Partially for lawyers. Another lawyer
was demanding representation for the
Workingmen. A Congressman was hold
ing up his hands in horror that bill
should have passed House with no quo
rum present-as if there was any point IN
that A Doctor was occupying the high
est position in a meeting whose chief
grievance was that the farmer and work
ingman were kept in the back ground,
and which choked down the only resolu-
ton offered for the benefit Of the farmer
one to require railroad corporations to
fence in their tracks.
It was a rare political meeting and we
expect it will be a long time before Angus
ia sees its like. 1t is great pity howev-
or that the Doctor. Lawyers, Editor anG
ex-office holding element that ran the
meeting should not have been made to
suffer what there was to be suffered. AS
it was, the burden fell on an innocent
farmer and an equally innocent mechanic,
who were snatched up and clapped on the
ticket to be defeated. What had these es-
timable gentlemen done more than the 9TH
ers to deserve this? It was conceded
even by those who nominated them that
they were deserving men. quiet bodies, one
of whom was at that moment actively a.
work in his shop. The honest son Of toll
has hard time enough of it at best, but
never harder than when a coterie OF
Lawyers, Doctors and Editors pick him
out to run for something he can't get.
If Augusta was Republican county the
lawyers and doctors would 60 to the leg
islature themselves; but as it isn't they
run somebody else. They adopt the eco.
nomical plan of keeping it to themselves
when they have it,and giving it away when
they haven't got it.
We trust the Democrats of Augusta
will give the ticket put forth by this
meeting crushing defeat. A ticket put
forth with such environment as sur
rounded the birth of this one richly de-
serves it. It cannot be elected by the Re
publicans, but it can be by the Democrats
of the county if they are apathetlc, show
no interest in the canvass. and finally stay
at home thinking some other Democrats are
going to defeat it. The Republicans don't
expect to elect their ticket, their only
hope is that the Democrats may elect it
by staying at home as they did last fall. or
by throwing away their votes on the Pro-
hibition ticket. On the two chances hang
the Republican hopes. The Chairmen of
the Precinct Committees should begin
work noao to get their men together. The
election is not three weeks off. The time
is very short and the voters look to the
Precinct Chairmen for guidance.
THE REP UBLICAN NOMINEEo.
Messrs. Craig and Dunlap who were
nominated Saturday for the House of
Delegates. are old citizens of this county.
respected by those who know them and of
excellent standing in their communities.
Against them personally there is not
word to say. Of their ability for framing
legislation, dealing with the grave af-
fairs of State, or graphing with the great
issues of the day, we know nothing-and
that, we suspect, is fully as much as nine
tenths of the meeting knew, that on Sat
urday hurriedly nominated them by &C.
clamation. But this we do know and
know to a inty-that they are Repub
licans = Scl9A unfit to represent the
county of Augusta. They
aore nominated, seconded. euloglzed. and
voted for by close friends of William
Malone. and that is enough to establish
The fact in the minds of the Augusta peo-
pie that they will vote for him for U. S.
Senator. Augusta county will never send
a man to the Legislature to elect William
Malone to the U. s. Senate-a politician
whose methods have been blot on the
politics of the State and at which large
section of his own party revolts. The
nominees were made the subject of the |
endorsement of Mahone's right hand men,
Ex- Collector Craig and Ex-Auditor Brown
Allen, and that makes assurance doubly
sure that If they got to Richmond they
would not only go into caucus, but will
so in there to vote for Malone. They will
not be eIected-and should not be.
is Billy Burke .Labor1ng man, asked |
Mr.. Craig. Saturday. Well quite as much |!
of a laboring man IS his predecessor at !
the Postolfice. And now gas Billy Craig
q labor1pg man who was appointed Reve- |
nue. Collector? No, he was q lawyer. The
Republicans always re nember the s'labor.
ing man. when they gee something they
can't get, and they nominate him to run
forit.